THE CATALAN DREAM - 11th September 2013, Downing Street, London. Catalan people celebrate "La Diada", the day in wich Barcelona fell into the hands of the Bourbons (1714).

"The support for Catalan nationalism ranges from the desire for independence from the rest of Spain, expressed by Catalan independentists, to a demand for further autonomy and the federalisation of Spain. The first survey following the Constitutional Court ruling that cut back elements of the 2006 Statute of Autonomy, found that a majority would support independence in a referendum.
Already in February of the same year, a poll by the Open University of Catalonia gave more or less the same results.
Since 2011 when the question started to be regularly surveyed by the governmental Center for Public Opinion Studies (CEO), support for Catalan independence has been on the rise.
According to the CEO opinion poll from October 2012, 51% of Catalans would vote for independence, 21% against it, and 21% would either not vote or vote blank".